
Harmony 2021 Year in Review & December Updates: Chainlink, #DayONE & ecosystem growth!
In December, the Harmony team gathered for DayONE in San Francisco to celebrate the growth of the ecosystem in 2021. The team hosted 400 guests to discuss the future of Web3 along with the leading founders, builders, and investors. We also launched Chainlink price feeds on Harmony mainnet as the oracle solution for DeFi projects in the Harmony ecosystem.
TL:DR - December Updates
- Chainlink launch on Harmony
- ONEquest to onboard 1m users
- DayONE hosting 400 plus builders & leaders
- Team offsite on 2022 initiatives
- ONEAfrica DAO hosts first meetup in Kenya
- Regional DAOs have begun translations in regional languages
- Want to become ONE with Harmony? Join us
- Zku.one launch - A learn to earn initiative by Harmony
Chainlink - has launched on Harmony. With this integration, it's never been easier to create and execute such smart contract logic in a highly secure and reliable manner. To start building with Chainlink Price Feeds on Harmony today, refer to the following developer documentation.
1/ @chainlink Price Feeds are now live on the @harmonyprotocol mainnet. Developers can use these #decentralized price oracles to build a variety of #DeFi applications, including money markets, #stablecoins, payment solutions, futures contracts, & moreπ
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) December 14, 2021
Hereβs What It Meansπ pic.twitter.com/7PCDaHW9KT
ONEquest - Harmony aims to onboard ONE million users in the coming months. Now you can enter #ONEquest and win 1,000 ONE tokens as daily prizes for the race! To enter and win, complete the assigned five tasks. The fastest time from a wallet creation to posting #ONEquest on Twitter wins.
#ONEquest is here! Join @harmonyprotocol's journey to 1 M users by entering ONEquest & win 1000 ONE tokens as daily prizes for the race!π€―
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) December 17, 2021
Complete the 5 tasks & the fastest time from a wallet creation to posting #ONEquest on Twitter wins!
Learn moreβ¬οΈhttps://t.co/NHnK5G2XjY
DayONE - Our team hosted 400 web3 builders and leaders in San Francisco for our #DayONE event to discuss the future of web3! The event was started with Stephen Tseβs keynote speech on β100 DAOs & Cross-Chain Web3β followed by Gmunk showcasing his catalogue of digital art & NFT collection. Next, was a fireside chat with Anne Fauvre-Willis from OpenSea on the βNext Era for NFTsβ. The Harmony core team came together to talk about the Harmony Project Highlightsβ. The event also had the top leaders & builders from Polychain Capital, FalconX, Next Hollywood and more engage in web3 discussions. Β Watch the whole event.
1/ Harmony's #DayONE was a success, & a promising event filled with speakers, creators & builders of the #Web3 community discussing #NFTs, #DAOs, and more. The event was kick-started by a keynote speech by Stephen Tse (@stse), founder of @harmonyprotocol
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) December 10, 2021
π Hereβs the recap
Team Offsite - To cap off the year, the Harmony core team met offsite to build strategies Β on 2022 initiatives. Topics included NFT infrastructure, ZK proofs, and scaling the Harmony Ecosystem.
1/ At the @harmonyprotocol team offsite this week. I'm wearing a Harmony Beanie, Shirt, Hoodie, and also a Harmony sticker on my Macbook. I'm really grateful and proud to be playing a super small part at Harmony by making it an accessible, open, and secure platform on which π§΅ pic.twitter.com/JFMsmRNh2y
— papiofficial π (3,3) (@shmula) December 15, 2021
ONE Africa DAO - made blue waves in Kenya by hosting one of the first Harmony Africa meetups. The DAO hosted a βWhat is the future of blockchainβ themed meetup on 21st December 2021 calling out aspiring African DAOs to present their innovative projects and asking the Harmony community to join in on sharing their opinion.
The Harmony Africa DAO has been approved π@harmonyprotocol will be funding the ambitious & talented team leading @OneAfricaDao whose mission includes educating, public influence, tech wellness & conferences!
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) November 24, 2021
More π https://t.co/TCaQIVmhRk#DAOs #Blockchain #HarmonyONE
Regional DAOs - Our open.harmony.one page has begun translations in 8 regional languages that include Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Korean, French, German, Indonesian & Chinese. We aim for more!
Harmony Careers - Harmony is a community-driven project, a network with billion dollars of assets, and a team wearing crazy ambitions on their sleeves. If you are an engineer, product designer, ecosystem builder, business developer or extremely passionate about the blockchain ecosystem, weβve got a place for you! Apply today at career@harmony.one.
zku.ONE - is a #learntoearn initiative from Harmony. ZKU is a 7- week intensive course with practical hands-on learning and mentorship from industry experts. Guidance and further mentorship opportunities will also be provided for students who complete their final project, to allow them to apply for a $50,000 launch grant to kickstart their careers. The course starts on Dec 23 (Thursday). Register here by January 2nd, 2022.
Enroll NOW at Zero-Knowledge University FREE of cost & win various scholarships & prizes!
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) December 20, 2021
ποΈThe course starts Dec 23 (Thursday)
πDetails & signup: https://t.co/6lkuwmT1kw
πMore questions: https://t.co/4gK0oTNEUt#studytoearn
Harmony 2021 Year in Review & Ecosystem Growth
From launching on mainnet to achieving 2-second finality, 2021 has been a year of growth of our ecosystem, the Harmony team has been focused on adoption, interoperability & decentralization. We accelerated adoption for the next 1 million users through workshops for developers, hackathons & grants.
Our success metrics for 2021
Apps - 227 apps with 553,511 wallets
Payouts - $7.71m payout for 108 Gitcoin bounties
Assets - 400m+ assets locked across cross chain bridges
Artists - 7,483 artists with $1.07m NFT sales
TL:DR 2021 Year in Review & Ecosystem Growth
- Ethereum Tooling
- Sushiswap launch & Curve finance launched on Harmony
- Harmony Explorer went live.
- Harmony launched on Horizon Bridge
- We launched our cross-chain NFT bridge
- Our $1 Million Hackathon was incredible
- You can build on Harmony using our $300M ecosystem fund
- Check what Messari has to say about Harmony
- Events: EthCC, Liscon, NFT NYC, Dcentral Miami & DayONE
Harmony Network & Blockchain Ecosystem
Harmony started the year by publishing our 2020 ecosystem growth and writing out our roadmap and strategy for 2021. We also completed full Ethereum tooling compatibility to allow developers to scale their applications on Harmony with low fees.
We delivered products and partnerships that greatly advanced our mission of building the future of cross-chain finance. Automated money markets like Sushiswap & Curve Finance launched on Harmony, the Harmony Explorer upgrade went live. Harmony also launched Horizon bridge, the first version of its Ethereum-Harmony cross-chain bridge on mainnet and then further extended to Binance Smart Chain (BSC).
We also launched our cross-chain NFT bridge as part of the Horizon bridge. Cross-chain NFT bridge is as easy-to-use as the ERC20 token bridge on Horizon. There is a short video to demonstrate how to use the NFT bridge.
1/ Harmony protocol launches a cross-chain NFT bridge as part of the Horizon bridge π
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) November 29, 2021
Now, ONE can easily mint and trade #NFTs while paying minimal gas fees.
π#Creators and #Artists, jump on the #NFT bandwagon. Here is how ONE can start https://t.co/IDSNO5WYwh
We also launched our $1 Million Hackathon Announced to bring Traditional Finance to Decentralized Finance. With over $1,000,000 in prizes and seed funding from Harmony and Prize Partners.
In September before ETH Lisbon 2021, we announced our $300M ecosystem fund for 100 DAOs. By now, we have 23 DAOs that are now funded with Gnosis Safe multi-signatures and Snapshot votings.
Harmony was featured in the Messari Report that goes in-depth about Harmonyβs competing power, they said, βHarmony has the potential to compete with both L1s and L2s using its low fee, fast, and trustless bridge.β
Thank you: @Messaricrypto deep dives into the Harmony Ecosystem and articulates our role in the journey towards a multichain future.
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) October 13, 2021
The report highlights our growing ecosystem with $1 billion total value bridged to Harmony.
The report πhttps://t.co/E1KPCTFlZt
Highlights π pic.twitter.com/pMt4htkBSB
Ecosystem & Partners
- Zi Wang - Β (Timeless CEO): Curator DAO for NFT Moments
As part of our #TimelessNFT partnership with @harmonyprotocol, we've minted event NFTs celebrating @MessariCrypto #Mainnet2021. If you've attended, quote tweet us with your address and we'll airdrop the first 5 an NFT! #HarmonyONE
— Timeless (@TimelessDAO) September 20, 2021
- Aaron Li: 1Wallet with Smart One-Time-Password Authenticator
1οΈβ£/ just released π
— Li ιΆηη° π funding 10,000 builders (@lijiang2087) July 12, 2021
the command line version @1wallet_ π for anyone who want to try their hands on it.
i'm not that technical and i could set it up pretty quickly.https://t.co/djHGiclvoc
- 0xKrillin (Tranquil Finance): Permissionless Money Market
3/ 0xkrillin from Tranquil Finance (@tranquil_fi) will speak about Permissionless Money Market π
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) November 28, 2021
Check out Tranquil Finance πhttps://t.co/FMUBqqePeR - An algorithmic market market #protocol, allowing users to lend and borrow assets permissionlessly.#Harmonyprotocol pic.twitter.com/IcJ3f1ectr
- @DreamerDFK (DeFi Kingdoms): Play-to-Earn Cross DeFi
π―πHeroes, we are proud to announce that we're approved for a $1MM grant from @harmonyprotocol! We are SO excited to bring opportunities and impactful experiences to this AMAZING community!
— DeFi Kingdoms (@DefiKingdoms) December 20, 2021
Read the proposal hereπ https://t.co/eks18Hlrw9#defikingdoms #dfk #harmonyONE $JEWEL pic.twitter.com/vkge9eemYp
Harmony Events
Our team connected with partners in Paris during the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC).
Harmony had an amazing time at @EthCC π«π· building bridges and being inspired by so many people π£
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) July 26, 2021
If you missed out on this week follow the thread π§΅ below from @lijiang2087 and see exactly what Harmony was up to for this entire week at @EthCCWeek π https://t.co/TF8N9ehFoo
Our team gathered in Lisbon to partner with builders, creators, dreamers, and the crypto community. The Harmony team spoke to over 100 Web3 builders to plan out products and campaigns. We launched our first billboard video during NFT NYC titled βCreate Wealth in Harmonyββ in Times Square.
1/ Don't miss out our pop-up party for our billboard launch "Create Wealth in Harmony" π
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) November 2, 2021
Join us ONE time in https://t.co/uBhpr0CbQB π
Nov 3rd Wed 1:30 β 3:30pm at #Timesquare
(blue-shirts at 46th St cross Broadway)
Details: https://t.co/Mkrt77NX7o
In store next π #NFTNYC https://t.co/bvgBRR0JQz pic.twitter.com/M7poBy7sws
1/ @harmonyprotocol was at the Liscon 2021 (@0xliscon) in Lisbon, Portugal where @stse caught up with creators, industry leaders and builders to discuss their journey, the future of the crypto ecosystem and the viability of DAOs. π
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) December 20, 2021
A Thread π pic.twitter.com/cC2g155ccT
We also participated in Dcentral Miami, with our booth featuring our ecosystem project that included Defi Kingdoms, MadinArt and others.
Not sure if you've purchased your DCentral Miami tickets yet! The @harmonyprotocol team has π
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) November 18, 2021
Come meet us in #Miami for #grants to launch with #HarmonyONE. Booth features π @DefiKingdoms @MADinArt3 @Harmoonies1 #NFTs #DeFi
Apply for grants π https://t.co/M4VzfKoJF1 pic.twitter.com/FFlouwf7Hn
Lastly, we hosted a year-end event DAY ONE in San Francisco on December 8th to celebrate the entire ecosystem.
In San Francisco, we celebrated #Web3 at our remarkable year-end #DayONE event π
— Harmony π (@harmonyprotocol) December 12, 2021
We picked the top brains of the industry, as they shared value-packed Insights on #DeFi 2.0, the Next era of #NFTs, #DAOs and more
Let's DAO, build, celebrate Web3 together as we step into 2022! pic.twitter.com/cwJYTaCm8E
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